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YATittle posted:

Currently reading the long Robin Williams biography, "Robin," and there's a guy who got into the self-checkout line but had dealt with pain and depression his whole life. Turns out his diagnosis of Parkinson's was incorrect and they discovered after his death he had Lewy Body dementia which had no treatment or cure and he was headed for a really dark place. Yes, his family missed him and was incredibly sad but that particular affliction would've been a long, lonely road of hell. 

I remembered reading an article about Robin Williams shortly after he had taken his life and that Lewy Body dementia sounded like a particularly awful disease to live with.  Apparently there were times where he knew how bad he was getting and felt like a burden on his family and that may have contributed to him deciding to end it all.

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